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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

All disease begins in the gut.

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.

Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

Many admire, few know.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

Walking is man's best medicine.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.